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Angel of Freedom
Allowing dreams to soar
In response to customer request, Susan re-carved Angel of Freedom. The angel holds a wire butterfly in her outstretched hands as a metaphor of freedom and independence. This has a very open interpretation, and can fit a lot of different occasions. For graduates, for a personality with a free spirit, for someone who loves nature and butterflies... in memory of a loved one.
Your Stories 
In September of 2011 my mother hung herself at our home. This was devastating to our family, especially to me her daughter. This holiday season was very difficult. I decided though she is no longer here I wanted to get her an angel. I choose for her the Angel of Freedom. My daughter opened it for my mom. It was for me a reminder of where she is and that people who do this need to be free of their demons. She will get a new one every year. This piece is a great gift for people who are going through things like this and much more. Thank you for making them. I look at it all the time and it helps me. My mommy is beautiful and so are all of these angels.
Submitted by amanda in oregon, January 2012
My mom recently passed away. She was ill for 2 years and died 1 month before her 84th birthday. My mom loved butterflies. I purchased the Angel of Freedom butterfly for my sister for her birthday. My husband just gave me the same one for Christmas. I now want to purchase them for my other sisters. Every time we look at that angel, we will think of our mom who we miss more than words can say.
Submitted by Debbi in WI, December 2011
I bought this beautiful angel in the memory of my dearest cat who just died. I got her when I was 12 years old, and she was with us for 15 years. She was like no other cat, always around us and always happy. I miss her. Now I have The Angel of Freedom to remember her by - every day!
Submitted by Hanne in Norway, December 2011
I picked up "Freedom" for a friend who had lost her mother several years ago to cancer. It seemed very fitting and I like to pick something up that has meaning and comfort for close friends.
Well, my mother-in-law passed away this past October (2011) and I went in search of two more "Freedom Angels" - one for myself and one for my sister-in-law. Freedom was THE absolute perfect choice to represent a symbol of my mother-in-law. She loved angels and butterflies, and after more than 15 years of chronic pain she was finally free.
Thank you for sharing your special talent and gifts with us.
Submitted by Bev in Ontario, December 2011
In 2003 my beatiful son was born. We found out at nine months old that he had a very rare chromosome abnormality, that he would have extreme difficulty with his "trunk strength." Walking for him was extremely hard to learn. When he started taking his 1st steps unaided except for his walker, my mother-in-law sent this to me. He literally walked away from his walker at 32 months old. It is a reminder to me that there is always someone there to help you when you need it, even if you can't see them.
Submitted by Angela in nc, October 2011
My mother bought the Angel of Freedom for me when I was graduating high school and moving interstate for university. It was a frightening time of change but when Mom gave me the angel, I realised that I could turn this into a positive experience. Like the angel, I needed to let go of my home and open my wings to fly into a new experience. I'm grateful that this beautiful piece helped me make sense of that time. She now sits on my desk as I study, reminding me every day that I tread the path of freedom instead of fear.
Submitted by Ellie in Australia, October 2011
When I had my son in December of 2009, he became sick with samonella and was admitted into the NICU. Every night I would sing him "Butterfly, Fly Away". When he passed away in February of 2010, I told everyone that his way of letting me know he was around would be through butterflies. Since that horrible day, my children, my husband and I have had a special attachment to butterflies, as do they to us. This makes me think of my Angel sending me butterflies!
Submitted by Nicole in Maryland, September 2011
Following four years of infertility I was finally pregnant. But 1st of April a routine checkup turned not so routine at all as we found out my son had passed away. He was born into my hands two days later.
There's not telling for the time that followed. Dark is one word that creeps to mind. Death is forever. And forever is a very long word.
This angel now stands with his picture offering some kind of comfort to the thought of my butterfly child. It's a reminder that he is free now. I can let him go to see the stars and the sky, yet he sometimes sits down like a wee butterfly in my hands. It also gives me freedom to try for siblings. Never ever him, but a glimmer of hope - for one that might be fully and completely his or her own. Memories remain but freedom is still a comforting word.
Submitted by Elida in Sweden, August 2011
I received this angel for my eight years clean anniversary. After having experienced a life of drug addiction and horror, I have acheived many great things. College degrees, motherhood, a great career and a lot of community service. I am so grateful to be able to experience a second life. Butterflies represent a lot to me because of the transformations they make, and this angel symbolizes everything that my life has come to stand for! This was an introduction to your products and I am hooked.
Submitted by Andrea in IL, July 2011
Today I am buying this Angel of Freedom for my daughter who is graduating from high school. May her dreams of her future always come true! As a little girl she loved butterflies and gardens. This figurine will be the cake top on her graduation cake.
Submitted by Jill in NY, June 2011
My very closest friend has a collection of Willow Tree figurines and I have always loved seeing them at her house. I wanted to start my own collection but never got around to it.
Then one day my one and only child, my daughter, had what seemed like a mild case of diarrhea. Ultimately, there was nothing mild about it as it was E. coli. In the end, our daughter was gone after just two weeks and two days. At her funeral, my friend brought me a very special gift that had been meant for our daughter while she was in the hospital. It was a Willow Tree figurine, the Angel of Healing. She said, “This was meant for Mariana (pronounced Mar-e-awe-na). However, now it is a gift for you to help you in your healing.”
Then a few short months later another friend found out about Mari and sent me a special gift in the mail. It was another Willow Tree figurine, only this time it was the Angel of Remembrance. My Willow Tree collection ended up starting in the worst of circumstances. However, the beauty of it all is now I collect angels in memory of my daughter. I have a site dedicated to her at mommysangelinheaven.com. Between her website and the angels I now collect, it helps to make the time I have here on this earth just a tad bit easier until one day we can all be reunited again someday in Heaven. Tonight, I just purchased the Angel of Freedom figurine as I know that now she is now in Heaven and is free of all autism. I now have a total of 9 Willow Tree angel figurines, and the daddy and daughter one. I have also purchased for Mari’s grandma and grandpa the grandmother and grandfather figures with a grandchild in remembrance of her as well.
I know that I would have given anything to not have started my collection this way but I am ever grateful that those angels are an ever present symbol for our angel that is now in heaven.
Submitted by Kristena in KY, April 2011
I have Asperger's Syndrome and face many limitations. The butterfly holds special meaning to me, because it is free, but fragile. I mentioned to my mom that I liked Willow Tree figurines and wished they made an angel/person holding a butterfly. I just received the "Angel of Freedom." It sits on my photo shelf with the special people in my life, including my mom.
Submitted by Allison in USA, April 2011
Some years ago my husband and I were on holiday. I saw the figurine with two people and I bought it for our wedding day.
After a while I found a store in my own town which have these nice things, and I bought myself the Angel of Freedom.
Perhaps a year later I was visiting my half sister, who I met when we both had grown up. I got a present from her. The present was the Angel of Love. We had not met for several years, and the gift filled my heart. Later I bought a present for a friend who had a baby. I had to buy two babies in one box, and I only gave one baby to my friend and keep the other for myself.
My husband and I have been married for a long time and I wish us to be old together, so I bought the old man and wife.
Today I got a gift from my daughter, a birthday present, the Angel of Caring. She said that I should read the text in the paper because that was me. I was so happy. Then she asked if she could ask me a question about the baby piece, and I said of course. Is the baby my little sister who was dead when she was born, she asked. I had never thought in this way, but it got me to thinking.
When I look at all my pieces I feel very calm, and they give me so much good energy.
With love
Mona-Lisa
Submitted by Mona-Lisa in Sweden, January 2011
I had purchased Angel of Freedom for myself this year. Each year I bought my friend Alice an Angel but she passed away last year. So I was going to named my angel Alice. Instead I gave her to Bernice, a dear friend I have known for 66 years, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. This Angel will look after her.
Submitted by Jessie in CA, December 2010
I brought myself "Angel of Freedom". She now stands by my son's picture. He was killed in a road traffic accident a few years ago whilst out riding his beloved motorbike. All his life he was a free spirit and lived that life to the full. This little angel reminds me of a young man that always allowed his dreams to soar and that now he is forever free. This angel is truly beautiful and because of the memories she invokes she will always be special to me.
Submitted by Frances in France, August 2010
What i liked most about this piece is that it portrays freedom and independence as something angelical!Someone who has a free and independent spirit may find comfort in that. Often those people are considered difficult or even thought of as selfish and not caring. And here comes Susan Lordi with her pretty little angel. I received this gift yesterday from a special person. "Allowing dreams to soar" is more than welcome. At a time of my life when several things have been put "on hold", may this angel, through her Freedom and Liberty allow Dreams to Soar!
Submitted by Dalia in France, May 2010
Angel of Freedom was my first Willow Tree Angel. I received it as a gift for my high school graduation. It meant a lot to me, I was about to attend a college far from home and felt it was my time to finally spread my wings and explore the world. This angel with her very simple pose conveyed that feeling for me.
Submitted by Ruth in Connecticut, April 2010
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